Dynamic regulation of cell adhesion receptors is required for proper cell migration in embryogenesis, tissue repair, and cancer. Integrins and Syndecan4 (SDC4) are the main cell adhesion receptors involved in focal adhesion formation and are required for cell migration. SDC4 interacts biochemically and functionally with components of the Wnt pathway such as Frizzled7 and Dishevelled. Non-canonical Wnt signaling, particularly components of the planar cell polarity branch, controls cell adhesion and migration in embryogenesis and metastasic events. Here, we evaluate the effect of this pathway on SDC4. We have found that Wnt5a reduces cell surface levels and promotes ubiquitination and degradation of SDC4 in cell lines and dorsal mesodermal cells from Xenopus gastrulae. Gain-and loss-of-function experiments demonstrate that Dsh plays a key role in regulating SDC4 steady-state levels. Moreover, a SDC4 deletion construct that interacts inefficiently with Dsh is resistant to Wnt5a-induced degradation. Non-canonical Wnt signaling promotes monoubiquitination of the variable region of SDC4 cytoplasmic domain. Mutation of these specific residues abrogates ubiquitination and results in increased SDC4 steadystate levels. This is the first example of a cell surface protein ubiquitinated and degraded in a Wnt/Dsh-dependent manner.Cell adhesion and migration are key processes for embryogenesis, inflammatory response, tissue repair, and cancer. Cell migration is a very dynamic process that requires the continuous assembly and disassembly of the cell surface complexes mediating cell-cell and cell-extracellular matrix adhesion (1, 2). Integrins and Syndecans are the main cell adhesion receptors involved in focal adhesion (FA) 5 formation and cell-extracellular matrix communication (3). FA formation of cells plated on fibronectin requires the specific engagement and synergism between ␣51 integrin and Syndecan4 (SDC4)(3, 4).SDC4 is a cell surface heparan sulfate proteoglycan that activates intracellular signaling cascades through activation of PKC␣ (4). SDC4 overexpression or knockout compromises cell migration in normal (5) and tumorigenic cells (6). More recently it was demonstrated that SDC4 is required for localization of Rac1 and membrane protrusion formation at the leading edge to allow celldirected migration (7). In normal and tumorigenic cells, endocytosis and recycling of integrins modulate FA turnover and proper cell migration (8, 9). Which extracellular cues regulate the stability and turnover of FA receptors, in particular of SDC4, is a key question to understand cell migration.Wnt proteins constitute a large family of secreted glycoproteins that can activate diverse intracellular signaling pathways in a context-dependent manner. Wnt5a is known to promote polarized cell migration by activating a non-canonical Wnt pathway through the tyrosine kinase Ror2 receptor and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (10 -12). Wnt5a increases cell migration and invasiveness of tumorigenic cells by activation of FA kinase, PKC, Rac1, and promoti...